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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN OREILLY, OF WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHUTTLE-OPERATING MECHANISMS OF LOOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 214,696, dated April 22, 1879 application filed I September 30, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN OREILLY, of Westerly, in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shuttle-Operatin g Mechanisms of Looms; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of In the drawings, (t represents the pickerstaff of a loom b, a connecting -rod, by which the picker-staff is connected with the picker-arm. c is an adjustable eye-piece, secured to the picker-arm. Its lower end is provided with a diamond-shaped projection, a, which enters a slot on the picker-arm. It is also provided with a longitudinal slot, f, and is secured to the picker-arm by a bolt passing through the slot f an d a slot in the picker-arm, so that the piece 0 may be raised or lowered and adjusted by the screw-bolt with which it is secured to the picker-arm. The eyes 6 e are rounded, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so that the connection with the picker -rod will beyielding and will not bind.

When the bent rod forming the picker-rod b is used, as shown in Fig. 1, the same is journaled in an adjustable bolster, g, secured to the picker-staff, as shown in Fig. 2. When more elasticity is required, the rod 1) is bifurcated, so as to form a closed loop, and the elastic cushion b is secured so as to bear on the picker-staff, and the elastic roller b journaled in the picker-rod b, bears against the front of the picker-stafl. These elastic cushions break the force of the blow, and prevent the breaking of the picker-staft',whi1e the loosely-journaled pickerrod prevents the strain incident in a more rigid connection.

Having thus described my invention, I claim' as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a picker-arm provided with separate vertical and horizontal slots, of an eye-piece, 0, having eyes 6 6 formed on its upper end, and provided at its lower end with a lug or projection, which engages with the vertical slot in the picker-arm, and with a vertical slot which intersects the horizontal slot in the picker-arm, and means for fastening the picker-arm and eye-piece, conmeeting-rod b, and pickef-stafi' a, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the picker-arm,

adjustable eye-piece c, connecting-rod 1), and picker-staif a, of the elastic cushions b and b, substantially as set forth.

- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OWEN OREILLY.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER, J. A. MILLER, Jr. 

